“If Joseph Smith were a fraud, trust me, he’d have changed his ways in order to avoid the fierce opposition.”
Even if he believed the poppycock he was preaching, that still wouldn’t make him less of a fraud. None of you have explained the mis-translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphics - that was decidedly fraud. Nor have you explained how his signature got on a three dollar bill without a bank charter - outright fraud again.
These examples really aren’t even close to a grey area, they are flat out grifter behavior.
“These examples really aren’t even close to a grey area, they are flat out grifter behavior”
I don’t know what to say to you but I was wondering how you felt about Joseph Smith being tarred and feathered and almost being castrated . . . and finally murdered in cold blood by a mob. No trial, no jury, no judge, no justice.
If Joseph Smith were a fraud, all he’d have had to do was renouce his spiritual claims but he never did because it was all true.
But it’s OK that you don’t believe. It’s such a wonderful free country. For victory & freedom!!!